eSports LoL News

Kirill Seregin | 2016-10-13 |

Let’s not waste any time and jump right into our eSports LoL News.

eSports LoL News: A LoL Replay Function is Coming

LoL has brought changes, not only to the game itself, but also to the prize pool of Worlds 2016. Getting a Penta kill in a very challenging game gets all the glory when it can be bragged about with an easy-to-share video. But if at that moment, one doesn’t have any third party tools to create or to watch the clip then what can be done? Well Riot has just solved this problem. A developer for Riot has revealed the franchise is going to deliver a tool before the next season. It will enable the player to watch their replays directly from the LoL client itself. Toxicity is very common in online games and cannot be confined to a particular eSports title. But it looks like the toxicity is strengthening its roots by entering into the professional competitive gaming.

eSports LoL News: Toxicity in Professional Players

Recently in the world of League of Legends, Hankil “Road” Yoon, the Support player for the Chinese team I May, has been the latest example of toxicity. Along with a 10 game ban from the chat of the game, he also used “racially insensitive language” against his very own teammates. He has also received a fine of $2,000 from Riot and a one-game suspension as well.

eSports LoL News: Crowd Funding

Riot has recently doubled the prize pool of The League of Legends World Championship. That means there is now $4 million on the line. And the winner will take home 40% from the sum of the prize pool. Interestingly, the prize pool is still growing. Riot took the crowd funding approach for the first time, and by the looks of things, it is paying off. And it’s not begging their respective community for donations. Instead, they are just allocating every 25% from the sale of “Championship Ward” and “Championship Zed” skins to the prize pool. And, to put the icing on the cake, 30% of team icon sales is directly shared with the respective teams.

eSports LoL News: Capcom Cup

Boosting the prize pool with the DLC sales is not the first tactic that was invented by Riot and surely it won’t be the last one. The first company to use this tactic was Valve. They still hold the record of the largest prize pool in the history of any eSports – which is the $20 million prize pool of The International. Capcom also announced that the Capcom Cup’s prize pool will get crowdfunding. The details of the tournament were made public at Evo convention. We will be looking at a lot more tournaments and we will hope that they will all end up on a positive note.

Dota 2:

Boston Major

From the tournaments point of view to roster dramas, the world of Dota 2 has recently gotten very interesting. Valve has made a very special announcement on their blog. Valve has revealed the very first snippets of the upcoming majors of the 2016/2017 season. Wang Theater will be the host of the Boston Major with a luxurious 3600-seat venue. The group stages will take place on the 3rd and 4th of December . The 16 teams will face off against each other in single-elimination playoffs. This brings an end to the double-elimination brackets which were a sort of a tradition for Valve. The teams will play a best-of-three until the final which will decide the champion after a best-of-five series.

Team Secret’s Drama

After all the roster shuffle saga, the drama still continues in the world of DotA 2, as Evany Chang called out Secret’s management six months ago for the delay of the player’s payments. Recently, Jacky ‘EternaLEnVy’ Mao has published a 3000+ words blog in which the player highlighted the same issues and a lot more regarding Team Secret. The blog post has a hefty part entirely dedicated to a very dark face of Clement ‘Puppey’ Ivanov. The organization still owes him money, unfulfilled streaming deals with Panda TV, percentages cuts that were never discussed, and unpaid salaries for months.

Beyond the Summit

The months of October and November will be full of entertainment for the audience as the 6th annual tournament of Beyond the Summit will take place. Like always, it never fails to deliver some promising DotA. With a $100,000 USD prize pool, big teams are gearing up. They prepare themselves for this competition which paves the ways for the Boston Major coming up in December. So the winner of the Beyond the Summit tournament will be carrying a huge advantage into Boston.

With all the recent drama surrounding the organization, Team Secret has withdrawn from the tournament. Teams like Digital Chaos, Wings Gaming, Evil Geniuses, OG, and the four teams from the NA, China, and SEA qualifiers will face off for the ultimate prize. After quite a number of unconventional drafts, Imperial has prevailed over all of its opponents in the WESG. Their drafts include cores like Silencer and Warlock. And who can forget the support Pudge and the Centaur in the offlane.

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